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36.1.3 Summary Information Objects
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5770' xml:id='l2h-5770' class="method">GetProperty</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>field</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Return a property of the summary, through <tt class="cfunction">MsiSummaryInfoGetProperty</tt>.
  <var>field</var> is the name of the property, and can be one of the
  constants
  <code>PID_CODEPAGE</code>, <code>PID_TITLE</code>, <code>PID_SUBJECT</code>,
  <code>PID_AUTHOR</code>, <code>PID_KEYWORDS</code>, <code>PID_COMMENTS</code>,
  <code>PID_TEMPLATE</code>, <code>PID_LASTAUTHOR</code>, <code>PID_REVNUMBER</code>,
  <code>PID_LASTPRINTED</code>, <code>PID_CREATE_DTM</code>, <code>PID_LASTSAVE_DTM</code>,
  <code>PID_PAGECOUNT</code>, <code>PID_WORDCOUNT</code>, <code>PID_CHARCOUNT</code>,
  <code>PID_APPNAME</code>, or <code>PID_SECURITY</code>.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5771' xml:id='l2h-5771' class="method">GetPropertyCount</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Return the number of summary properties, through
  <tt class="cfunction">MsiSummaryInfoGetPropertyCount</tt>.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5772' xml:id='l2h-5772' class="method">SetProperty</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>field, value</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  Set a property through <tt class="cfunction">MsiSummaryInfoSetProperty</tt>. <var>field</var>
  can have the same values as in <tt class="method">GetProperty</tt>, <var>value</var>
  is the new value of the property. Possible value types are integer
  and string.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5773' xml:id='l2h-5773' class="method">Persist</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
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<dd>
  Write the modified properties to the summary information stream,
  using <tt class="cfunction">MsiSummaryInfoPersist</tt>.
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  <p class="heading">See Also:</p>

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    <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/msisummaryinfogetproperty.asp"
        >MsiSummaryInfoGetProperty</a></em></dt>
    <dd></dd>
  </dl>
  <dl compact="compact" class="seetitle">
    <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/msisummaryinfogetpropertycount.asp"
        >MsiSummaryInfoGetPropertyCount</a></em></dt>
    <dd></dd>
  </dl>
  <dl compact="compact" class="seetitle">
    <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/msisummaryinfosetproperty.asp"
        >MsiSummaryInfoSetProperty</a></em></dt>
    <dd></dd>
  </dl>
  <dl compact="compact" class="seetitle">
    <dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/msisummaryinfopersist.asp"
        >MsiSummaryInfoPersist</a></em></dt>
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